Plasma television set

A plasma television set having a plasma display panel driven by a plurality of direct-current power supplies including at least an address power supply and a sustain power supply, said plasma television set comprising a primary power-supply board and a secondary power-supply board,

• said primary power-supply board including:
• a rectifier circuit for converting an alternating-current power supply to an direct-current power supply;
• a transformer for deriving address and sustaining power supplies of prescribed voltages from said direct-current power supply;
• primary power-supply board output terminals for outputting said address and sustaining power supplies to said plasma display panel;
• and
• terminals for the second power-supply board for outputting secondary power supplies derived from prescribed voltage levels of said transformer to the secondary power-supply board,
• said secondary power-supply board being independent of said primary power-supply board and including:
• input terminals connectable to said terminals for the secondary power-supply board;
• MOSFETs which are fed with said secondary power supplies through their drains and output said secondary power supplies through their sources to said plasma display panel;
• capacitors put between the source and the grounds of said MOSFETs;
• variable resistors put between the sources and the grounds of said MOSFETs;
• shunt regulators into which divided voltages from the voltages of said secondary power supplies divided by said variable resistors are inputted as reference voltages;
• regulating transistors which reduce the gate voltages of said MOSFETs when said shunt regulators are turned on;
• starting transistors which a start signal outputted from a microcomputer is inputted into and reduce said gate voltages while no start signal is inputted into them;
• limiting transistors which reduce said gate voltages if overcurrents are detected at the sources of said MOSFETs;
• and
• secondary power-supply board output terminals for electrically connecting the sources of said MOSFETs to said plasma display panel.